French lessons for Children, Sydney

VoulezVouloz is pleased to announce that it is now offering French lessons to children aged 5 – 16 in Sydney.

If you’d love your child to have a second language choose VoulezVouloz to teach your children French in your own home. You can take a back seat or get involved with the lesson which will include age appropriate teaching methods.

We use interactive teaching methods to keep children engaged as they learn French including:
- Choosing a French name.
- Learning French songs and games.
- Reading French books.
- Watching French videos.
- Translating their favourite stories, magazines and songs into French.

We’ll also provide free French resources including print outs, book and videos for your children to borrow during the course of their lessons.

So if you’d like to give your child a head start with French, call us today on 0448 271 392.

Aimed at French-speaking children aged 3-12, TIVI5MONDE PLUS is the first entirely free, fun and educational Online TV station.

This innovative service allows French-speaking families, and also anyone with a love of French who wants to introduce their children to the French language, to access quality children’s broadcasting in a safe environment and without any restriction to viewing times.

Working closely with its partner broadcaster (FranceTélévisions) TIVI5MONDE has selected the very best French-speaking children’s programmes.

TIVI5MONDE PLUS offers a wealth and quality of unique programmes thanks to a selection of the best children’s television from French-speaking countries (France, Belgium, Switzerland, Canada) with cartoons, entertainment, educational programmes and news.

Various competitions and educational features are also organised around a number of these programmes. Also designed to promote the French language to youngsters abroad, Children’s WEB TV will provide teachers with educational activities to encourage the learning and teaching of French through the use of cartoons.

• Par hasard… By chance
• Par contre … On the other hand
• en colère … angry
• Je reve … I must be dreaming
• il me semble que … It seems to me
• Il faut que … It is necessary
• en verité … truthfully, in truth
• exprès … On purpose (e.g.tu l’as fait exprès)
• enfin (enfin bref) … finally, to summarise, at last
• Il me tarde … I am looking forward to
• Je m’en vais … I’m off now

Radio France Internationale is a major international radio broadcaster with 46 million listeners.

It broadcasts 33.5 hours of programmes each week and is funded partly by the French government and partly by audiovisual licence fees.

Every day they bring their listeners a story that’s making the news in France (Focus on France) and each weekend they look at what’s happening in the world of French culture (Culture in France).

Their longer 20-minute features run every day and cover a wide range of subjects such as French culture, the African diaspora and world music.

• Expressions:
• porter/taper sur les nerfs de qqun – to get on someone’s nerves;
• avoir ses nerfs – to have a fit of nerves;
• Allons du nerf ! – Come on! Buck up!
• avoir les nerfs en boule / avoir les nerfs en pelote – to be edgy, tense
• avoir les nerfs malades – to suffer from nerves
• avoir les nerfs à toute épreuve / avoir les nerfs d’acier – to have nerves of steel

Related: nerveux – nervous
Related: un raté - failure, flop, misfiring (of a gun or motor)

Lauren learns French